Monthly Archive for October, 2007

: October, 2007

Do you need some help with your turkey? Mary Clingman, director of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, will lead 45-minute classes on turkey preparation. She will be teaching at two different locations on November 3. Both classes are free! …

The Amateur Gourmet has taken some new turns lately. A new book, an improved website. Fame is the name of the game. I am an avid reader of his blog for a really long time so I feel part of his blossoming process into a real time writer. Too much credit for myself, possibly. Don’t forget that it’s the little people that count. I really enjoyed his post about restaurant reviews. He mentions his inner conflicts about how much to write and how critical he can be. He suddenly has to be careful not to ruin any of his contacts. He now knows what it’s like to be criticized. It’s so easy to ruin someones business with a few innocent words. It’s also easy to lose readers of your own when you are not sharing all the information you know. Read the comments to the post as well. They tell you a lot about what his audience likes. …

There are so many hobbies that you can have but none as gratifying as a food hobby. You can always find someone to eat your creation. Food gifts are always appreciated by your friends and it’s the kind of thing that doesn’t cause clutter(no one opens your food cupboard anyway). Scrapbooking is fun but is a long term project. You can’t finish the whole scrapbook in a few hours and chances are somebody will feel the need to vomit when looking at all the cheesy pictures that you chose. Making things for the house usually seems like a great idea until you realize that nobody needs another decorated box to clutter their kitchen. Plus, pretending to like the gift and faking a smile only causes unwanted wrinkles. Save your friends the trouble. Make your own chocolate bars. A gift that nobody can resist. …

It’s all over the news. Lead is found everywhere. It’s in our lipstick and in Thomas the Train Toys. We foodies need some controversy too. Here it is. Now it’s corn. Read about how corn is taking over our lives or better yet watch the movie. Does this mean that I will be avoiding corn? Heck, No. Not even if it looks like yellow teeth. What do you think? …

Who wears a hat all the time, speaks with a French accent and participates in almost every food event possible? The answer is Thierry Rautureau of Seattle’s Rover’s, a twenty year old success story that marries Pacific Northwest Cuisine with a French flair. …

They take up all your kitchen space. They attract piles of dust. They have stains all over them. Your friends constantly borrow them and forget to give them back. You turn to them when your hungry. They make your stomach flatter. You flip through them when your bored. Sometimes they strech the truth(or the quantities). They cause you to spend lots of money on ingredients. You can’t live with them. You can’t live without them. Cookbooks. What is a classic cookbook? What’s your favorite cookbook? …

Finally the wedding is getting closer….less than two weeks to be precise. Yesterday, I went for the second tasting before the wedding. The food will be served Asado, which is a kind of Argentinean barbecue. Asado is the name for grilled beef. The waiters will come to the table with the beef on sticks. They will slice the meat hot and serve it directly to the guests. There will be five different types of beef. There were chorizo sausages on the menu but some of my family members had a problem with the idea of sausages being served at a wedding. …

My fondest memory of day camp was the day we made a gigantic ice cream sundae. We covered all the long wooden tables with garbage bags. The counselors dumped ice cream everywhere. We were instructed to use all the candy they gave us to decorate the ice cream sundaes. We dug in, hundreds of kids, of all shapes and sizes. Our bloated bellies possessing incredible feelings of liberation. If this would have happened in 2007, moms would be withdrawing their kids from camp at the rate of 1 kid per minute. Gosh, kids can’t even eat cupcakes these days. …

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